We only request information from participants which is essential for the purpose of managing our Highpointeering initiatives.

This information is limited to participants’ names, email addresses, age groups, counties, and evidence of their Highpointeering activities.

At the end of each Highpointeering season, we announce a full list of participants who earn certificates and awards during that calendar year. We only publish participants’ names, counties and scores in these announcements.

In these announcements, we also make a very broad reference to participants’ age group in the Young Highpointeer of the Year awards category only (i.e. that winners in this category must be under the age of 18 years old).

Participants can choose to be listed as “Anonymous” in our certificates and award announcements. We will maintain a record of all certificate and award recipients on a password-protected computer located in Northern Ireland.

Young people

Individuals under the age of 18 years old are very welcome to take part in our full range of Highpointeering initiatives. However, if a young person wishes to communicate with us via email, social media or the News Hub, we request that all such communications be conducted by a responsible adult representative (e.g. parent, teacher, scout leader, etc).

We do not publish photos or videos of identifiable young people on our Websites without written consent of their parent / guardian.

Under no circumstances do we make reference to the name of any young people who appears in photos or videos published on our Websites.

Advertising platform

We provide advertising space and listings on our Websites. We only display advertisements for relevant groups, organisations and businesses who have clearly expressed their consent to appear on our Websites.

From herein, any group, organisation or business who advertises on our Websites will be referred to as an “Advertiser”.

We may approach a potential Advertisers via the contact method(s) which are publicly visible on their website or social media profile(s).

We only use images as advertisements on our Websites which have been sent to us by the respective Advertiser for this specific use.

We assume that any individual persons who appear in the advertisement images we receive have given their permission to the respective Advertiser.

Email

We prefer to send emails to individual recipients rather than to multiple recipients. If we wish to reach out to a wider group, we will do so via our News Hub and / or on social media.

Incoming emails received by us will be searchable by us in our inbox.

Outgoing emails sent by us to new recipients will automatically add those recipients’ email addresses to our contacts list.

We do not maintain any group email contact lists.

We do not share email addresses with third parties.

If we receive an enquiry which can be better answered by a third-party group, organisation or business, we will direct the enquirer to the website of that third-party group, organisation or business. We will not share the email address, real-world address, or any other contact details of third-party groups, organisations or businesses without their written consent.

Social media

Each of our followers on social media appears on a list within the applicable social media platform(s). These lists may be publicly visible.

Our lists of social media followers are maintained exclusively within the respective social media platform(s). We do not recreate any information about our followers outside of the respective social media platform(s).

We do not have or require access to social media user account passwords.

Our followers on social media can unfollow us at any time. This will remove their details from our respective social media list(s).

Blog

Our community blog is hosted on the WordPress platform and is part of our News Hub.

“Followers” of our blog appear on a list which is visible only to our blog administrator. This list contains each follower’s display name and username.

“Email followers” of our blog appear on a list which is visible only to our blog administrator. This list contains each email follower’s email address only.

“Contributors” to our blog appear on a list which is visible only to our blog administrator. This list contains each contributor’s display name and username.

Our blog contributors do not have access to our lists of followers, email followers or contributors.

Contributors’ articles contain an author bio. Only the contributor has control over what is contained in their author bio.

Our lists of followers, email followers and contributors are maintained exclusively within the WordPress platform. We do not recreate any information about our followers, email followers or contributors outside of the WordPress platform.

We do not have or require access to WordPress user account passwords.

We, and our blog contributors, may include links to social media content in our blog articles. Such content is regarded as already being in the public domain prior to publication of our blog articles. Deletion of original social media content will also remove it from our blog articles.

We will not initiate any email communication with followers and email followers of our blog on an individual basis. However, we will respond if they contact us first.

We may initiate communication with contributors to our blog, but only in relation to blog activities within the WordPress platform.

Contributors can request to have their articles removed from our blog at any time.

Contributors can request to discontinue their contributor role at any time

Followers and email followers of our blog can unfollow us at any time. This will remove their details from our WordPress lists.

Location logging

Peakhunter is our logging partner. Some of our initiatives require participants to provide URLs of the individual time-stamped log entries they make using the Peakhunter app. This information is collected and collated exclusively using Google Forms and is not recreated outside the Google platform.

Outgoing links

Owners of third-party websites can request to have links to their website(s) removed from our Websites at any time.

Forms

For certain specific purposes, we use Google Forms as the means for our website visitors to communicate with us. The information provided to us in these forms is collated exclusively within the Google platform and is only visible to us when we sign in to our password-protected account.

Site statistics

We use Google Analytics and WordPress Stats to monitor traffic passing through our Websites. The statistical data visible to us is completely anonymous and does not allow us to identify any individuals who visit our Websites. It does, however, allow us to identify countries and cities from where our Websites are viewed along with the relevant traffic figures.​

Sharing of information

Some of our initiatives require interaction with other web-based platforms as detailed above. Each of these platforms has its own privacy policy.

We do not share personal data about visitors to our Websites, our followers or our contributors unless required to do so for legal reasons.

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Disclaimer

If you are planning to visit any of the locations on the Gribbon list of Ireland's major geographical High Points, please be aware that Highpointeering, rambling, hill-walking, hiking, mountaineering, mountain running and cycling are risk sports. High Point Ireland, Kieron Gribbon (the website's author and founder of High Point Ireland) and Donard Media (the website's publisher) accept no responsibility for any injury, loss or inconvenience sustained by anyone using this website. Personal safety is entirely the participant's own responsibility.

The inclusion of locations on the Gribbon list of Ireland's major geographical High Points is based entirely on each location's ability to meet the necessary criteria for at least one of the eight primary sub-lists contained on this website. It should not be assumed that access is permitted to any of the High Point locations on the list. High Point Ireland, Kieron Gribbon and Donard Media recommend that anyone planning to visit any of the High Point locations on the list should check for potential access restrictions and to request permission from the relevant landowner(s) in advance.